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The Egg Church

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was published in April 2011. Kernersville’s First Presbyterian Church continues to make chocolate Easter eggs each spring, selling a whopping 70,000 in 2017.


Forget the goose that laid the golden egg. The church that makes the chocolate eggs is a much better story.

For the past 21 years, Kernersville’s First Presbyterian Church — known around town as the egg church — has spent the Lenten season turning out hand-dipped, chocolate Easter eggs. Loads of them.

Last year, the church made and sold more than 55,000 eggs in the seven weeks before Easter.

Fifty-five thousand.

In Kernersville, that’s more than two chocolate eggs per capita.

It’s more than twice the number of real eggs that a grocery store near the church sells in the same time.

Laid end-to-end, 55,000 chocolate eggs would stretch

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